Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2006 22:43 schrieb Paul A. Rubin:
> Yes, but unless I'm mistaken, LyX takes it upon itself to run the 
> graphics conversions (in this case from jpg to eps) in the temp 
> directory, and adjusts the file path to match the temp directory and the 
> file extension to eps, but *not* the type= argument.

Yes.

> So the question  
> is, should we hold the user responsible for changing type=jpg to 
> type=eps when doing View->DVI and then back to type=jpg if exporting 
> LaTeX, say, or should LyX take care of that?

No. The type= argument should not be needed at all, neither for DVI output 
nor for PDF.

> IMHO it's a bit  
> user-unfriendly to make the user do it, plus it requires the user to 
> know enough about LyX's internal workings to know that the file name 
> munging and conversion are going on in the first place.

Yes. Therefore it is a bug if the type= argument is needed, and it should 
be reported as such (with minimal example files, otherwise it is 
impossible to reproduce it).


Georg

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